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News (USA)
Jury finds Dharun Ravi guilty of hate crime against Tyler Clementi
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A jury in New Jersey has found Rutgers student Dharun Ravi guilty of a hate crime against his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, for using a web cam to spy on Clementi’s intimate encounters with another man.
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News (USA)
Two gay men beaten with baseball bats in Dallas hate crime
DALLAS — Two gay men were the victims of a brutal early morning attack on Tuesday and were beaten with baseball bats in what Dallas police are classifying as a hate crime.
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News (USA)
Maryland gay marriage opponents launch ballot referendum petition drive
BALTIMORE, Md. — Opponents to the Maryland law signed by Governor Martin O’Malley last month that would give same-sex couples the right to marry, have officially begun their effort to overturn the law.
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News (USA)
Two gay men, one transgender woman injured in DC anti-LGBT attacks
WASHINGTON — One gay man has been shot, and another gay man and a transgender woman were badly beaten in two separate attacks earlier this week in the Columbia Heights neighbood in central D.C.
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News (USA)
LGBT group plans legal challenge to anti-gay ‘religious freedom’ initiative
DENVER — Statewide LGBT advocacy organization One Colorado is planning a legal challenge to a broadly-written ballot proposal by conservative religious liberty group that could undermine state law protecting LGBT people from discrimination.
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Life
Lively claims lawsuit targets him for speaking anti-gay ‘truth of the Bible’
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Scott Lively, the anti-gay U.S. evangelist who is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a Ugandan gay rights group, responded Thursday, and said he was being targeted “for speaking the truth of the Bible” about homosexuality.
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Life
Kevin McCullough claims that nobody is gay
Kevin McCullough says that GLAAD is trying to “destroy” marriage, and takes issue with GLAAD’s use of the term “gay,” because according to McCullough, “I don’t believe that you can be gay.”
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News (USA)
U.S. Senate confirms gay nominee to California federal court
The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed to the bench a gay judicial nominee whom Republicans had held up for four months from receiving a floor vote along with other appointees.
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News (USA)
Washington gay marriage opponents launch drive to overturn law
Opponents of same-sex marriage began collecting signatures in Washington state on Wednesday in hopes of blocking the state’s new marriage equality law before it can go into effect this summer, just one day after a Superior Court judge cleared the way for opponents to begin the petition drive.
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News (USA)
Principal who invited anti-gay Christian band to school assembly resigns
DUNKERTON, Iowa — The high school principal who allowed the Christian rock band Junkyard Prophet to espouse anti-gay, anti-abortion views at a student assembly last week, is resigning, according to school district officials.
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Life
Singer, songwriter Tom Goss: top-shelf LGBT artist with a quirky charm
I’ve been a fan of singer/songwriter Tom Goss since the release of his first CD “Naked Without.” Since then this guitar-toting troubadour wielding heartfelt lyrics, hooky melodies and quirky charm has earned a dedicated national following.
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News (USA)
Chicago city council considers modified transgender protections ordinance
CHICAGO — Ald. Joe Moreno introduced an ordinance in the Chicago City Council Wednesday that would set specific guidelines for police to follow while handling transgender people.
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News (USA)
Kentucky House panel rejects adding sexual orientation to anti-bullying law
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bill that would have expanded Kentucky’s anti-bullying laws by linking harassment to sexual orientation, race and other characteristics, died in the House Education Committee on Tuesday after facing opposition from Republican lawmakers.
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News (USA)
Jury begins deliberations in webcam spying trial of Rutgers’ student
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A jury on Wednesday concluded their first day of deliberations on whether Dharun Ravi committed a hate crime when he used a webcam to spy on his college roommate’s intimate encounter with another man, actions that allegedly contributed to the suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi.
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Life
Ben & Jerry’s rebrands ice cream to support UK marriage equality effort
With the debate for marriage equality taking place in England’s Parliament this month, Ben & Jerry’s United Kingdom arm has renamed their Apple Pie “flavor” as “Apple-y Ever After.”
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News (USA)
Ugandan gay rights group files lawsuit against U.S. evangelist Scott Lively
A Ugandan gay rights group on Wednesday filed suit in federal court in Massachusetts against notorious American evangelist, Scott Lively, accusing him of violating international law by inciting the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda.
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News (USA)
Santorum wins GOP primaries in Alabama, Mississippi
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum scored two wins in the GOP primaries on Tuesday by adding Alabama and Mississippi to his column after prevailing in Kansas over the weekend.
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Commentary
GLAAD campaign demands media accountability for anti-gay pundits
Today, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) will launch the Commentator Accountability Project, which seeks to educate the media on the wool pulled over its eyes by anti-gay pundits…
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Commentary
AIDS. Remember me?
On the morning of my thirtieth birthday, I checked my then-partner, Shane Sawick, into the hospital. He would not come out. Shane died just two weeks later, suffering from Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML); one disease, among many, battled in his long war against AIDS. Once in the hospital, the illness quickly progressed, and in just a matter of days, he could no longer speak, blink, nor respond in any way. Through it all, though, his mind still raced, and processed, and thought…
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News (USA)
New polling reveals increasing support for marriage equality
LOS ANGELES — There’s been a ton of new polling data from around the country, and it’s all encouraging. And more bad news for the National Organization for Marriage: they’re under investigation by the Minnesota Elections Board, and the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to play along with their attempts to hide donors.